measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

, fuzzy set theory has primarily been utilised in the social sciences in the field of poverty measurement. These essays …-to-date fuzzy-set methods for the measurement of socio-economic phenomena in a multidimensional and/or dynamic perspective. Thus far …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

variables is not very different from the one that is observed when poverty measurement is based only on the income or the total …This paper makes a systematic comparison of four approaches to multidimensional poverty analysis based respectively on … the theory of fuzzy sets, information theory, efficiency analysis and axiomatic derivations of poverty indices. The …